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Build Your Own Virus

Posted by michael on from the just-like-sea-monkeys dept.

Wire Tap writes "Scientists have assembled the first synthetic virus. The US researchers built the infectious agent from scratch using the genome sequence for polio. The most amusing part is this snippit: 'To construct the virus, the researchers say they followed a recipe they downloaded from the internet and used gene sequences from a mail-order supplier.' Heck, don't we all have our own mail-order suppliers for gene sequences?"

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  1. Well, I've not seen this mentioned yet... by oPless · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Corewars

    and

    More Core Wars


    and

    Even More Core Wars


    Okay, not virii - but still programs that kill each other are kinda cool :-)

    Whats more is people are evolving these little programs to be better.

    Oh they have a newsgroup too.( google alt.rec.corewar )


    /op